I extorted a nice boy into buying me The Dark Crystal and that’s what I’m watching tonight between cleaning and other boring things.
I remember being scared of the creatures in The Dark Crystal when I was little especially Augra and her removable eye. I looked at the package today and saw that the movie is rated PG but since it’s an older movie it doesn’t say why it’s rated PG. I guess if it was re-released the package would say something like “Fuck those creepy vulture things! Did that muppet just take out her eye?”
What happened to making up creatures for kid’s movies? Talking cars, cute robots, ninja pandas, smiley fish…does everything have to be a friendly recognizable thing? Dark Crystal is so cool because of the weird Henson creatures. Even though gelflings look slightly Asian and the Podlings are vaguely Eastern European, the other creatures are a wonderful mix of creepy and only slightly based in reality.
Unrelated, I’ve recently discovered Leonid Afremov’s paintings (noisy site) and I am totally digging them. Maybe I will get a print to replace the hula hoop in the living room when I get a new couch.